Preparing tomorrow’s leaders: The pitfalls of leadership development and how to avoid them

Abstract

A fascinating article from spring’s MIT Sloan Management Review focuses on leadership development programs – and more to the point the reasons why they fail. Among the issues raised, the authors claim that companies “exhibit clear patterns that cause repeated failures or breakdowns in their capacity to create internal leadership talent”. So grave are the problems that they are likened to a disease eating relentlessly away at corporate competitiveness.

Citation

(2003), "Preparing tomorrow’s leaders: The pitfalls of leadership development and how to avoid them", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 22-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280310492500